Improvement in shipping-cases



J.H.BYRNE.

INVENTOR:

WITNESSES.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC JAMES H. BYRNE, 0,13 DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT lN SHIPPING-CASES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204, 194, dated May 28, 1878; application filed March 22, 1878.

' improvement in the construction of cases, particularly designed for use in shipping cans containing varnish, oils, 860., to prevent the can from being damaged, and to secure a neater appearance than the devices now in use.

The invention consists in the peculiar construction and arrangement of the various parts,

as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view with the case closed and ready for shipment. Fig. 2 is a similar view open.

In the drawing, A represents a box of any desired size to receive the can B, provided with a pouring and filling neck, a. In the upper end of the box is an elongated opening, b, while the balance of the box is entirely closed. To cover this opening Ihinge a proper strip, G, at one end to the side of the box, as shown, which, when closed down,.entire1y closes that end of the box. To secure this By this construction of case the danger of having the neck of the can knocked off is avoided, while I secure a much neater package in every particular than those now in use.

What I claim as my invention is The box A, for the purpose set forth, provided with narrow opening b, extending across the topof the same, and opening at in its side, in combination with the hinged covering-piece O and the plate-latch D, pivoted to the side of the box, and adapted to lock the coveringpiece over the opening b, and to close the opening d when in that position, constructed and arranged substantially as described and shown.

JAMES H. BYBNE.

Witnesses H. S. SPRAGUE, CHAS. J. HUNT. 

